Cube 2: Hypercube

Cube 2: Hypercube is the sequel of the cult-classic science-fiction movie Cube. Released in 2002, Hypercube had a bigger budget than its predecessor, and a new director, Andrzej Sekula.

Cube 2 is a radical departure from the original. The dusky, dingy rooms of the first movie are replaced with high-tech, brightly-lit chambers; the plausible technology of the traps--flamethrowers and extending spikes--are replaced with CGI of shimmering translucent walls that disintegrate matter and floating spheres of razor-sharp angles. The group discovers that the cubes are moving, not with lumbering slowness, but instantaneously. They realize they are inside a functioning tesseract in which gravity shifts, space distorts and time splits off into many separate paths. While some hailed the sequel as inspired madness, more derided it as brilliantly conceived but poorly executed, citing in particular the questionable acting and the banal revelation at the end.

Cube 2 is followed by Cube Zero, a prequel to the original film.

External links

• Cube 2: Hypercube at the Internet Movie Database